Clothes-pin.



l. W. NEWSOM.

CLOTH ES PIN.

.APPHCATION FlLED lULY 14 I915.

Patented Aug. 27, 1918.

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CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2'7, 1918.

Application filed July 14, 1915. Serial No. 39,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WESLEY NEW- SOM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Graham, in the county of Young and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap-' pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved clothes pin, and an object of the invention is to provide a simple, efficient and practical device of this nature which may be manufactured for a very slight cost.

One of the features of the invention is the provision of a series of coils, one of which merges into an arm extending downwardly at a slight obtuse angle to the coils, and which arm merges into a second arm, which terminates into a right angled upwardly extending third arm, the extremity of which forms into a hook to engage over the clothes line. The clothes pin may assume three different positions, for instance, a position as shown in Figure 1 (which is loose), another position as shown in Fig. 3, with the hook of the third arm in engagement with the clothes line, and another po sition as shown in Fig. 2 intermediate the other two positions. When the clothes pin is in the position shown in Fig. 1 the second arm extends in a plane at an acute angle to the coils and at an acute angle to the clothes line. When the pin is in the position shown in Fig. 2, the second arm is still at an acute angle to the coils and the clothes line, the acute angle in Fig. 2 to the coils being the same as that in Fig. 1, but the acute angle to the clothes line in Fig. 2 is less than that in Fig. 1, in other words, nearer the parallelism to the clothes line. In Fig. 3 the hook has been engaged with the clothes line, therefore the second arm is in parallelism to the clothes line but still assuming an acute angle to the plane of the coils, less than that shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In this way, when the hook is engaging with the clothes line, the several arms have been put under tension, causing the hook to bear down upon the line.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a view, showing the clothes pin hanging loosely on the clothes line.

Fig. 2 is a view, showing the position of the clothes pin, just before the arms have been placed under tension.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the clothes pin with the hook in engagement with the line, the second arm and the first arm being under tension.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates the clothes line, which may be constructed of any suitable material, preferably galvanized wire to prevent corrosion, and which extends through the sev eral coils 2 of the clothes pin 3. One of the coils merges into a downwardly extending arm, which extends at an obtuse angle to the plane of the coils, which arm 3 merges into a body 4, which extends at slight acute angle to the arm 3*. The body 1 terminates into a right angled extending arm 5, which protrudes upwardly and terminates in a hook 6, designed to engage over the clothes line as shown, to hold the clothes in place.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:-

In combination with a metallic clothes line, an article of manufacture, comprising combined tensioning and suspensioning means, consisting of a spring coil, the convolutions of which are axially arranged and receive the clothes line at an angle to the coil, an arm depending from one end of the coil at an obtuse angle thereto, said arm merging into a second elongated arm at an obtuse angle to the first arm, the second arm terminating in a right angle extending arm, the terminal of which is provided with a hook, which, .when said arms extending at an obtuseangle to each other are tensioned In testimony whereof I have signed my or bent to assume rlght angle positions, 1s name to th1s specificatlon 1n the presence of adapted to engage the clothes hne, stud tWo subscribin Witnesses.

2: spring coil and the tensioning of the obtuse JOHN WESLEY NEWSOM. singularly disposed arms constituting means Vitnesses: exerting pressure to hold the hook in en- C. W. HiNsoN, gagement with the clothes line. WILLIE RIGGS.

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